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Port Stockton Cement Company records, 1926-1977.
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Port Stockton Cement Company records, 1926-1977Creator/Contributor:
Port Stockton Cement Company, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Dunn, Robert Lee, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Holcomb, Idris Marianne, 1899-1993, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Dunn, Robert Lee, Jr, 1902-1958, creator.Abstract:
Organized into five series: 1. Administrative Records, 1926-1973; 2. Correspondence, 1928-1977; 3. Legal Records, 1929-1974;
4. Financial Records, 1927-1972; and 5. Stocks, 1929-1968. Administrative records include articles of incorporation, by-laws,
board meeting minutes, property records, maps showing limestone deposits, and records documenting the dissolution of the company.
The bulk of the correspondence relates to stocks, finances, and the estate of Robert Lee Dunn, Sr. Legal records concern the
Dunn family estate and lawsuits filed against the company. The financial records consist of reports and ledgers, and the stocks
series includes cancelled stock certificates and ledgers.
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1926 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caDunn, Robert Lee -- Estate
Dunn family
Port Stockton Cement Company -- Archives
Cement industries -- California -- Columbia
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Port Stockton Cement Company records, BANC MSS 78/27 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The Port Stockton Cement Company was incorporated by Robert Lee Dunn, Sr. in 1929 to establish a cement plant near Columbia,
California. The family business was run by Dunn, his daughter Idris Holcomb, and his son, Robert Lee Dunn, Jr. The Board of
Directors resolved to voluntarily dissolve the corporation on March 17, 1972.
Robert Lee Dunn (October 15, 1874-May 27, 1953) was a photographer and correspondent for Harper's and Collier's Weekly. In
1904, he went to Korea with Jack London to cover the Russo-Japanese War. Dunn accompanied then-Secretary of War William Howard
Taft on his world tour in 1907 and wrote a biography of Taft, published in 1908, which was illustrated with many of his photographs.
An entrepreneur, Dunn and his family eventually moved to California, settling just outside the town of Columbia in Tuolumne
County. His property had a sizable limestone deposit and he developed the Port Stockton Cement Company, which attracted numerous
stock holders but never really produced any cement. He lived there until his death in 1953. He and some family members are
buried in the Columbia Public Cemetery, which is within the boundaries of the Columbia State Historic Park .
In English.
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